tuberculate

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Leaves scale-shaped, somewhat 4-sided, closely overlapping, sharp-pointed, slightly tuberculate on the back; cones more or less clustered and nearly � in. long.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Incisors, 4/6 or 6/6; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and curved outwards and upwards; molars tuberculate; four toes on each foot—that is, two major and two minor, each hoofed.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Their shape, almost always spherical in the young plant, becomes ovate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, reniform, smooth, stellate, sometimes tuberculate, or remains globose.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

The skin on the dorsum is very weakly tuberculate.

From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.

It is smooth, shining, the margin furrowed and tuberculate.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis